Just started Battlestar Gallactica...

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Just started Battlestar Gallactica...

Post by miftah » Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:01 pm

I have skipped reading Eddie's post in the other thread, as I have just started the series. So far I've made it through the pilot and the first normal episode (jumping every 33 minutes). I am curious... is the entirety of this series as grim and full of dread as what I have watched? I appreciate suspense and obviously I am no Pollyanna, but it all seems a bit long on despairing at the moment. It doesn't help that the pilot was three hours long I guess, and featured the end of several worlds.

I am very interested in the philosophical/theological questions raised by what I've seen, I just don't relish sitting through five or six seasons of the futility of running from an enemy that has had 40 years to prepare its assault.
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Re: Just started Battlestar Gallactica...

Post by bio » Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:38 pm

miftah wrote:I am curious... is the entirety of this series as grim and full of dread as what I have watched?
Yes... it mostly is.

Of course, the main subject is a handful of survivors running from genocide, so it's going to be a bit grim.

I watched the series finale on Friday... and let me just say that it ended pretty much exactly how I predicted it would way back forever ago (the end was good, but that's about all I'm going to say about it).
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